Quick question about Pork Loin.

Scylermcf
Scylermcf Posts: 25 Member
edited November 14 in Food and Nutrition
We were at Costco and the Pork Loin and Rib were on sale for 18$ for a huge pack of it. I've never bought anything like it before and the Nutritional information wasn't on it, and I forgot to scan it before I threw the package out. It made about 20 'pork chops' and I want to eat them as they're just sitting frozen atm but I don't know how to count them. Does anyone have an idea as to the calories for what they would be in Raw weight? Everything I google comes up cooked or a different type of Pork.

I actually don't even know if its Pork Loin and Rib, or just Pork Loin. But my grandma said it was Pork Loin and Rib so that's what I'm going off of.

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  • corindeathawk
    corindeathawk Posts: 254 Member
    It is "Pork, fresh, cooked - Chop, loin (cut 3 per lb with bone)" in USDA Publication hg72_2002 (Can be downloaded from USDA Website). You want Food numbers 764-767 on pages 58&59. Measure the cooked weight (I would also have added do not count the bone, but the costco stuff is boneless IIRC). Also it matters if you eat the fat or not. Most of the DB entries in MFP are "lean only" and therefore may understate some values if you like the fat. The publication shows both value sets.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    you find the cut, and then search for the RAW entry from the USDA. Do not count the bone, unless you eat the bone.

    Lean only eaten, means that you aren't eating the fat.
  • amwoidyla
    amwoidyla Posts: 257 Member
    Pork loin is typically boneless, pork chop has a bone, and ribs are well...ribs. I would probably just weigh it raw and find the usda entry in the database. You can always weigh it cooked too, but the weight will be different depending on how done it is.
    If you're nervous about guessing, log higher just in case.
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